Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of US President JFK, -widely known for her beauty, grace and elegant style of dress.
Her many public appearances popularised pearl necklaces, the pillbox hat (a small hat with a flat top and straight sides) and simple, big-buttoned suits.

Mini Skirt Fashion

At the Melbourne Cup in 1965, English model Jean Shrimpton created controversy by wearing a synthetic white shift dress with a hem high above her knees.

She did not wear stockings, gloves or a hat.

Shrimpton's outfit was considered scandalous, and made headlines around the world.

By the end of the decade, however, shift dresses and mini-skirts had become widely acceptedMini-skirts have become an icon of the general culture of rebellion that characterised the 1960s.

Young people were rejecting the social standards of the past and so too was their fashion.
Many devotees of the feminist movement of the 1960s also saw the mini-skirt as a claim to the right of women to proudly display their bodies as they wished.